Six Cannes Market Titles Not to Miss (Cannes)

Black Butterflies
Director: Paula van der Oest
A polished history lesson for the art house crowd. Dutch actress Carice van Houten (Black Book) plays South African poet Ingrid Jonker, whose work helped unite the Apartheid-torn nation. Liam Cunningham and Rutger Hauer also star in this period drama, which comes off strong reviews from its debut in Tribeca.
Sales Agent: Bavaria Film International

La Delicatesse
Directors: David Foenkinos and Stéphane FoenkinosAmelie darling Audrey Tautou stars in this Franco rom-com based on David Foenkinos’ world-wide best-seller, about a woman who is courted by her Swedish co-worker while still mourning for her dead husband.
Sales Agent: Studio Canal

Cities
Director: Roger Donaldson
This multiple-narrative drama looks at how money affects the lives of a hedge fund manager in New York, a middle class couple in London and a police officer in Mumbai. Clive Owen and India’s Anil Kapoor star.
Sales Agent: Parlay Films

Great Hope Springs
Director: David Frankel
In this comedy from Devil Wears Prada director Frankel, Meryl Streep stars as Maeve, a woman desperate to reconnect with her husband of many years. When she hears of a famed relationship guru (played by Steve Carell) in the town of Great Hope Springs, she must persuade her skeptical husband to get on a plane for an intense week of marriage and sex therapy.
Sales Agent: Lionsgate

Solo
Director: Antonio Banderas
Written by Erik Jendresen (Band of Brothers), this English-language thriller, currently in pre-production, tells the story of a highly-trained, heavily armed man’s attempt to solve the mystery of what happened at 3:11 AM on a Monday morning, why there are fires raging all over a lifeless planet, why he senses another presence lurking just behind him and, most importantly, what happened to his wife and daughter.
Sales Agent: Vertice 360